Re: big downloads discuraged with php?

Michelle Konzack wrote:

Hello, I have coded a webinterface to a (Debian) pbuilder (i386, amd64, m68k, powerpc, sparc, mips, hppa, ia64 and arm) which can check and backport Debian sources. Now I have some trouble, because some people have tried to let php5 download source tarballs of 30-400 MByte... This let my system smoking!

How are you presenting the download? fpassthru for example reads the whole lot into memory and then spits it out. Using a loop like this: while(!feof($fp)) { echo fread($fp, $x); } will only read $x bytes and dump them.

Not that I have no bandwidth (SONET, Dual STM-4) or performance issues (32 CPU's 650MHz, 64 GB memory) but I want to ask you about security issues downloading such big files...

Same as with small files I assume ;)

Is it better, to span a shell with wget?

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